Amazon, Facebook, ICE, and the FBI are among the members of an intelligence-sharing network called Seattle Shield.

In Seattle, Facebook, Amazon, real estate management, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) all share one thing in common: membership to Seattle Shield, an exclusive intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police. The system highlights how secretive public-private networks of information-sharing have permeated law enforcement intelligence collection in Seattle and across…

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